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CompletedNCT00184535

Recording Methods of Muscle Activity "Onset".

Muscle Activity "Onset" in the Transversus Abdominis - Simultaneous Recordings by Intramuscular Electromyography and High Frame Rate Ultrasound Imaging.

Status
Completed
Phase
Study type
Observational
Enrollment
10 (actual)
Sponsor
Norwegian University of Science and Technology · Academic / Other
Sex
All
Age
30 Years – 65 Years
Healthy volunteers
Accepted

Summary

Delayed anticipatory muscle activity response in deep low back and abdominal muscles has been observed in patients with low back pain, indicative of a pathological condition. Muscle activity onset is traditionally recorded by intramuscular electromyography, but there is a need for a less cumbersome recording method in large clinical studies. The purpose of this experimental study is to explore whether high-frame rate m-mode ultrasound and tissue velocity imaging could measure anticipatory muscle responses ("onset") in the abdominal muscles reliably and comparably accurate to intramuscular EMG.

Conditions

Timeline

Start date
2005-07-01
Primary completion
2005-10-01
Completion
2005-10-01
First posted
2005-09-16
Last updated
2017-09-25

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Norway

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT00184535. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.